Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Dodge has based her romantic tale on a rubble foundation of fact. Claverhouse was a real character who, she thinks, has been handled over roughly by historians. As raw material for the cinema, Graham of Claverhouse is magnificent stuff. As a book, it is cloak-&-sword romance, Grade...
...aforementioned performers could carry a Grade B musical show by themselves. What puts The Show Is On definitely in the Grade A class is the addi tion of another pair of entertainers, Reginald Gardiner and Beatrice Lillie...
...grade crossing six miles east of Toledo, the N. Y. Central's famed 20th Century Limited collided at 75 m.p.h. with a truck tractor and semitrailer owned by Sentle Trucking Co. The railroad promptly sued Harvey H. Sentle, declaring that his driver had been negligent since the railroad operated flasher warnings at the crossing. The driver retorted that he stopped at the warning, but neither saw nor heard the train until he was almost across the tracks, when it hit him. Railroads have won similar judgments before, and the Common Pleas Court decided in favor...
...from a group of little pamphlets which come in four series, each more difficult than the last, and each series, contains four books. Since French A is the elementary course, its outside reading was supposed to come from rather easy books, so the authorities picked a book listed as "Grade I", without bothering to notice that it was "Grade J" in the fourth and most difficult series...
...were the common-law property of the University. Other bureaus have been dragged into court by publishers for mimeographing and selling digests of copyrighted textbooks. The small, hustling Parker-Cramer bureau sorely tries the University's patience by advertising a Pay As You Pass system that guarantees a grade of D, charges a sliding scale rate thereafter. And there has been a growing undercurrent of tales about students who have had themes, course papers, and even theses for honors ready-written at tutoring bureaus...